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You're thinking of: Carrier-scale IP networks: designing and operating Internet networks Edited by Peter Willis, ISBN 0 85296 982 1, The Institute of Electrical Engineers, London Kris > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin J. Levy [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:54 PM > To: Sean Donelan; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads > > > > Sean, > > My vote goes for... > > How to build an Internet Service Company > From A to Z... > All you need to know to plan, build and market an Internet > service company. > Tips and tricks from the inside. > > Charles H. Burke > July '96 > ISBN: 0-935563-02-4 > > And I quote... > > > Coffee Maker - Coffee is an necessary as HTML to the aspiring ISP. > > ... > > I highly recommend the Bunn-Omatic corporation for excellent high > > performance coffee makers. > > ... > > It's a classic! > > As for driving in the UK and US... I have explained the value > of roundabouts to many, many Americans and they still don't > get it. Being British, but living in the US... I just don't > get why they are not used here. > > You will have to put up with the face that Bell-heads and > Net-heads just doing things differently and not understanding > why the other side prefers an opposite method! > > Martin > > ---------------- > At 03:09 PM 7/11/2002 -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > >Has anyone written the equivalent of the old Bell Systems > Notes on the > >Network for the Internet? A couple of books come close, > Hueston's ISP > >Survival Guide and Cisco's ISP Essentials. But there doesn't seem to > >be anything that helps Bell heads understand what switching, routing > >or signaling means on the Internet. There are a lot of > words which are > >spelled alike, but mean very different things in the Bell > world and the > >Internet world. > > > >I've been thinking of it like driving in England or the USA. > We drive > >on different sides of the road. Its safe until you get someone who > >doesn't know the rules of the road driving on the other side of the > >Atlantic. So how do you explain the rules of the Internet > road to someone > >used to driving on the telephone system? > >
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